A veterinary nurse was found dead in her home after overdosing on animal medicine, a jury heard.

Helen Louisa Turrell, of North Coates in Louth, was taken to the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby after calling 111, telling the operator she had taken a large amount of the medicine because she had 'had enough'.

But the 33-year-old later fled after asking to go outside for a cigarette.

She took a taxi home where she was found dead in the early hours of February 19, 2016, by Lincolnshire Police.

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In a transcript of Mrs Turrell’s phone call to the emergency services, read out at an inquest held in the Lincoln Cathedral Centre, she said ‘she’d had enough’.

She said: “I’m just in a bad place.”

When asked if she had taken the overdose in a bid to end her life, she said: “I do not know.”

The phone conversation revealed Mrs Turrell, who volunteered at the Ark Rescue Centre in Louth while working at Eastfield Veterinary Clinic in northern Lincolnshire, was feeling down after the death of someone she knew.

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Professor Ian Ellis, who works at the University of Nottingham and carried out a post-mortem on Mrs Turrell following her death, said that on the balance of probability she had died from an overdose of the medicine.

But he said it was difficult to determine how much of it she had taken as tests were unable to fully detect it.

He said: “There are types of [this medicine] the tests do not detect.”

A toxicology report with additional findings will be read out tomorrow (Tuesday, June 20) as part of the inquest, which is set to carry on until Friday.